Based on this article:

https://www.aha.org/system/files/content/11/aco-white-paper-cost-dev-aco.pdf

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) are groups of doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers, who come together voluntarily to give coordinated, high-quality care to their Medicare patients. Creating ACOs that can effectively work with private insurers, Medicare, Medicaid, state health exchanges, and/or employers takes substantial work.

1. How do the hospital, physician, and insurer markets and incentives come into conflict when each stands alone?
2. Starting on page 4, under ACO Development Activities and Costs, pick three of the 22 points (you cannot pick "other") and discuss how these would help with making the markets/incentives be less in conflict.
3. How would this be expected to change the conduct and performance of the entities that form the ACO (i.e., the physicians and hospitals)?